Ganesh is Gone

The first thing I noticed this morning when I started my walk was that the corner by the Post Office on Hennepin and First St. now has a trash can.  I wrote about that spot on a prior blog and I expect that it may be just a happy bit of coincidence or maybe someone actually read what I wrote.  Either way, I am grateful. The area around the bus stop was noticeably cleaner.  I looked in the trash can and saw it had about a foot of trash.  We'll see over the next few weeks if that corner stays cleaner.  I was on vacation all last week and eating too much at the breakfast buffet so I really needed to walk a little longer today.  I grabbed about three bags of trash at Bassett Creek.  I tried to pry loose the car tire that is stuck in the mud down there.  Not going to happen.  I'm not sure what I would do with it anyway.  Later I went back under the Hennepin Bridge to finish what I had started there.  The water levels are low but I still had to hop over some open water spots along the wall to get under the bridge.  There was the usual litter plus a pink statue of the Hindu god Ganesh.  I thought I would keep it so I laid it very carefully on the top of my bag.  (My camera was home because the battery was dead.)  When I hopped across the rocks to the other side Ganesh was gone.  I guess he jumped out and went back under the bridge.